PROTIP​: After the mess comes the light. Your meticulously obscured heartaches and shame compile themselves into a slideshow of betrayals. You will bleed this will save your life eventually.

8 Praxis makes perfect.

nighttime phantasy about my phantom penis

awakened, i’m levitating ride hard, easy rider

the messiah. a lion i keep hxr. still distracted,

a transitory loneliness.

Do i think if i cry,
i’ll fail??

aren’t we the chosen people?

come into this unit, like a slippery slope i unravel, reveal

a soft head.

walk on water,
i hear hym say.

Mikaela Miguel (pronounced mee-KY-el-ah mee-gual) is a Two-Spirit Shamxn, Activist and Creator whose gender is an amalgamation of radical Trans and Xicanx cultura. In 2015 they alchemized Ihiyotl, a decolonized community healing practice centering the emotional needs of QTPoC & trauma survivors. Mikaela’s work at Ihiyotl is grounded in their belief liberation is only possible when the entire Self is engaged. Mikaela began disassembling the heteropatriarchy in 2017 via the Trans is Magick Collective, a Trans PoC lead art collective building visibility and resilience through celebration.

Peep them smoking mugwort & predicting the future in occupied Lenape territory, commonly known as New York City.